Threatened sand beach habitats

Sandy beaches comprise about a third of the world’s coastline. A 2020 study, published in Nature Climate Change, has reported that the world will lose almost half of its valuable sandy beaches by 2100 as the ocean moves landward with rising sea levels.

1. Threatened unvegetated habitats
2. Threatened unconsolidated coastline habitats
3. Threatened marine coastal habitats

1. Threatened ocean beach spits
2. Threatened intertidal sand habitats
3. Destruction of sandy inlet habitat

1. Illegal sand mining

1. Threatened coastal sand dune systems
2. Sandy soils

1. Threat
2. Endangered

1. Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion